Example sentences of "it was that [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it was that we had some very palpable hits , but no real engagements . |
| 2 | But I was in a foul temper , and Rebecca had n't made it any easier by going on about missing papers , and how urgent it was that we had them back . ’ |
| 3 | Friend stood back — or rather , his pattern spun off a little way so that she could see what it was that they had built inside the black of infinity . |
| 4 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 5 | And how it was that I had rediscovered the gift in pubescence , as if prompted by my burgeoning sexuality . |
| 6 | I wondered , since my mother was principally concerned for my health , and Lili only for my dress , why it was that I had felt secure until my mother arrived . |
| 7 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 8 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
| 9 | She was sitting on the bed with her album — that sparsely-peopled record of whatever it was that she 'd left behind and she was n't leafing through it but hugging it close , as if it was a physical source of comfort to her when times were at their lowest . |
| 10 | She could n't quite remember when it was that she 'd realized Georg took it for granted they 'd get married as soon as she was old enough . |
| 11 | The little jokes , the smiles , the anecdotes about his childhood , about his city , had been nothing but clever prelude to her seduction but the worst of it was that she 'd been so damnably easy to seduce . |
| 12 | Let Lucy articulate , lay herself on whatever uncomfortable line it was that she had elected to draw . |
| 13 | As she stared into her mother 's horrified face it came to her how strange it was that she had never liked her mother , because her mother had never liked her . |
| 14 | She tried not to dwell on why it was that she had n't . |
| 15 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |
| 16 | The pity of it was that she had n't made a bigger part for herself in the night 's scenario ; she was getting polite nods and hellos from people that she already knew slightly , and curious glances from most of the others . |
| 17 | This place had bred romance after romance , and it was as if it was that she had felt tingling in the air all night , like a presence … |
| 18 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 19 | The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " . |
| 20 | And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again . |
| 21 | It was that he had found a place in which to discover that there was of course , of course , no such Being at all . |
| 22 | Shortly after his father died the new Earl said how regrettable it was that he had died alone . |
| 23 | It was that he had had printed a leaflet , which he was taking to hotels , restaurants , shops , advertising his firm : Philip Fowler , Builder and Decorator ; that he had to get real work , soon ; that he thought he had contributed more than his share to this house , which was now in working order . |
| 24 | Or perhaps it was that he had not wanted to turn Bertha 's disappointment with her daughters into bitterness by seeing him show too much interest in his son . |
| 25 | Once again she wondered what it was that he had done in the war to make Anthony so angry . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps — ’ But he stopped , and Anne was left wondering what it was that he had nearly said . |
| 27 | It was that he had made her betray herself . |
| 28 | And then he wondered why it was that he had n't heard that satisfying little clunk the coin usually made as it dropped inside the machine . |
| 29 | He closed his eyes and tried with all the concentration of which he was capable to see with his mind exactly what it was that he had wanted to paint . |
| 30 | ‘ People say how sad it was that he had no relationships . |